A Florida federal judge has sentenced the former president and vice president of a Jacksonville teachers union to prison for embezzling more than $2.6 million in union funds, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

A group of charge nurses at a California nursing facility can vote on representation by a Service Employees International Union local, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, finding that they are... (more story)

An Oregon Starbucks manager's refusal to spy on or discipline unionizing workers may have contributed to the company's decision to fire him, but it wasn't the primary cause of the termination, a National Labor... (more story)

The federal antitrust exemption granted to baseball by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922 was wrong then and remains wrong despite the argument by the Puerto Rican league defending it, according to the team petiti... (more story)

Lawyers for a Long Island nursing home operator told a New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday that they hope to have a consensual Chapter 11 plan soon, after reaching a deal with the unsecured creditors' committ... (more story)

Duane Morris LLP helped Geico defang a sweeping collective action claiming it underpaid call center workers and defeated a harassment class action targeting tortilla maker El Milagro, allowing the companies to... (more story)

A Puerto Rico legal services nonprofit violated federal labor law by ceasing to pay attorneys for partial-day absences and cutting down on vacation and sick leave benefits for employees without consulting the ... (more story)

A former assistant police chief in North Carolina says he was pushed out after accusing his boss of helping town officials cover up mayoral misconduct, including a traffic stop involving the mayor and a late n... (more story)

A jury could reasonably find that a former Tennessee county employee was fired for complaining about unpaid overtime rather than for using profanity or because of a looming budget cut, the Sixth Circuit ruled ... (more story)

A Black attorney accusing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP of firing her for calling out racial bias has urged an Illinois federal court to reject the firm's bid to get employment records from her previous employe... (more story)

UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals has settled a former employee's disability discrimination suit claiming he was unlawfully fired when he tested positive for cannabis because he took cannabidiol gummies used to treat hi... (more story)

Global software company OpenText laid off a 61-year-old senior account executive under the guise of a reduction in force while retaining younger, less qualified employees and withholding more than $50,000 in e... (more story)

Three former employees of the Custer County Sheriff's Office claimed they were fired and criminally prosecuted for opposing alleged discrimination and misconduct from the county sheriff and undersheriff, accor... (more story)

A California background check company "negligently and recklessly" reported consumers' outdated adverse criminal warrant information in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a proposed class action in Co... (more story)

Petco automatically deducted 30-minute meal breaks from employees' hours even though they regularly worked through them, leading to unpaid wages, a former employee said in a proposed class and collective actio... (more story)

Little Caesars franchisees will pay $2.2 million to end a collective action alleging they misclassified store managers as overtime-exempt, according to a New York federal judge's order preliminarily approving the deal.

The work that six forensic death investigators performed was not directly linked to the general operations of a forensic pathology company, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday, ordering a new trial in the worke... (more story)

Uber Technologies Inc. and DoorDash Inc. have urged the Second Circuit to temporarily block New York City laws regulating how they display gratuity options, arguing the city may not attempt to increase deliver... (more story)

Two opt-in workers signed arbitration agreements with a customer experience technology company, and thus their expense claims cannot remain in court, a Colorado federal judge ruled, administratively closing the case.

A Michigan-based medical device company was hit with a potential class action alleging the company failed to pay its quality control inspectors in California a premium overtime rate or allow them to leave the ... (more story)

Former nuclear power plant workers urged a Maryland federal judge not to let Constellation Energy, DTE Energy, Duke Energy, NextEra Energy and others duck a proposed class action alleging a wage-fixing conspir... (more story)